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Wairauite from
Red Hills, Wairau Valley, Marlborough Region, New Zealand


Locality type:Hill
Classification
Species:Wairauite
Formula:CoFe
Confirmation
Validity:Valid - Type Locality
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Wairauite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Red Hills, Wairau Valley, Marlborough Region, New Zealand
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:276167
Long-form Identifier:1:3:276167:1
GUID (UUID V4):0
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
Wairauite CoFe c 2001-2005 Mineral Data Publishing, version 1 Crystal Data: Cubic. Point Group: n.d...100.3 100.00 n.d. Chemistry: (1) Wairau Valley, New Zealand; by electron microprobe. (2) Muskox intrusion...process (Wairau Valley, New Zealand). Association: Chromite, magnetite, awaruite, copper (Wairau Valley...Valley, New Zealand). Distribution: From the Red Hills, Wairau Valley, Marlborough district, South Island... New Zealand. In the Muskox intrusion, Northwest Territories, Canada. Name: For the Wairau Valley locality
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
942 W a i r a u i t e - - a new cobalt-iron mineral B y G. A. C~ALLIS1 and J. V. P. LONG D e p a r t...Cambridge [Taken as read 28 May 1964] Summary. A new cobalt-iron mineral of composition close to CoFe...the Red Hills serpentinites of the Wairau Valley, South Island, New Zealand. The name wairauite, after...the nickel content is very low (0"5• wt. %). Wairauite is optically very similar to awaruite but a tendency...(Ni3Fe). The new mineral occurs in serpentinite at the western c o n t a c t of R e d Hills, a large ultramafic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1965 NEW MINERAL NAMES Mrcn,q.Br,FrprscuBn Liberite Cn'ur+-LrN Cnao, Liberite (Li, Be SiOa),a new lithium-beryllium...five new nickel selenide minerals. Compt. rmdus Soc.geol,. Finlanile 36, 113-125 (1964). The new selenium...Anistropism strong, pink to yellowish-green. 519 520 NEW MINERAL NAMES Kullerudite NiSe2,occurs almost exclusively...green to pale orange-yellow, in air glowing cinder red to blue-green or green The mineral is almost as soft...Outokumpu deposit. Uklonskovite M N. SrvusaaEvA, The new mineral uklonskovite. 1093-1095 (1964). [. M. RulranovA
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
B. DICK Department of Geology, Yale University, New Haven, Conn. (USA) Received July 29, 1974 Revised...that josephinite originated at the core-mantle region, and was entrained and brought to the upper mantle...the presence of abundant native cobalt-iron (wairauite) and minor amounts of native silver are reported...author. In addition to these, C o - F e metal (wairauite) was found irregularly intergrown with the nickel-iron...intergrown N i - F e alloy little cobalt. The wairauite occurs within the n i c k e l - i r o n as veins
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
xc Nestus mine, Matlock Bath: aurichalcite, 441 Red Rake, Culver; rosasite, 441 1162 TOPOGRAPHICAL...aurichalcite, rosasite, 441 WALES Bwlch y Ddeufan, Conway valley: pumpellyite, 1093 Drws-y-Nant, Dolgelly: apatite... 563 A ntrim Black Burn, Carnlough; Glenariff valley; GIenarm, Kilwanghter Castle; Langford Lodge borehole;...Amo complex; Buff complex; Kaffo valley, Kiruei complex; Kigom Hills; Sara-Fief complex (all in the Younger...complex; Pankshin complex; Jos-Bukur~ complex; Shere Hills (all in the Younger granites): granite, ferrohastingsite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
The Origin of New Zealand Ultramafic Intrusions by GWYNETH A. CHALLLIS New Zealand Geological Survey...of New Zealand, and include the large masses of Dun Mountain near Nelson, Red Hills in the Wairau Valley...Valley, and Red Mountain in north-western Otago. Other, relatively small and almost completely serpentinized...from D'Urville Island to the Wairau Valley where it is cut off by the Wairau Fault, a major transcurrent...Mountain and Red Hills. A smaller isolated mass occurs in Permian rocks in the Matakitaki Valley, 50 miles
Report (issue)
late 1800s, when substantial reserves were found in New Caledonia (1865) and at Sudbury (1883), and the world’s...System Transparency Breithauptite NiSb copper-red 5.5 7.5–8.5 metallic hexagonal opaque tin-white...hexagonal opaque Niccolite (red nickel, kupfernickel) NiAs copper-red 5–5.5 7.8 metallic hexagonal...main examples are deposits in the Noril’sk-Talnakh region (northern Siberia, Russia) and the large, but subeconomic...production in the world was from mining laterites in New Caledonia from 1876. Nickeliferous laterites are
Report (issue)
NEW ZEALAND DEPARTMENT OF SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH NEW ZEALAND GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 125th ANNIVERSARY...1865 -1990 NEW ZEALAND GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 104 ISSN 0077-9628 Minerals of New Zealand by G. L....initials should be G.T., not G.L. Lower Hutt, New Zealand 1990 I I Beach sand, alluvium, • terrace...Figure 1. Simplified geological sketch-map of New Zealand. 0 20 40 60 80 100 KM l INTRODUCTION It...Morgan's "Minerals and Mineral Substances of New Zealand" was published, as NZ. Geological Survey bulletin
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
cobalt-iron, CoFe2, which is chemically different from wairauite (CoFe), has been found. In the serpentinized wehrlites...We found this mineral in this district, too. Wairauite, CoFe, is also an interesting and rare native...Borisenko et al. (1982) etc. We could not find wairauite in this area, but as will be shown later we 468...Muskox, native iron is associated with awaruite, wairauite and native copper, and in Mina do Abbesedo it...Kachkanar it is associated with nickeliron (NiFe), wairauite (CoFe) and awaruite (Ni3Fe). In our study, however
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1125 Twenty-third list of new mineral names By M. H. HEY, M.A., D.Sc. Dept. of Mineralogy, British Museum...author failed to synthesize; and 48 are synonyms, new names proposed for minerals already named. Further... 1954, vol. 39, p. 159; M.A. 12 305. A supposed new mineral subsequently shown to be manganotantalite...Synonym of Pyromorphite. TWENTY-THIRD LIST OF NEW MINERAL NAMES 1131 Chlorvanadinit. H. Wondratschek...p. 1513; M.A. 15-212). TWENTY-THII~,D LIST OF NEW MINERAL NAMES 1133 Femolite. K. V. Skvortsova,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
serpentinite shear zone: the Livingstone Fault, New Zealand Matthew S. Tarling1 , Steven A. F. Smith1 , James...University of Otago, 360 Leith Street, 9016 Dunedin, New Zealand 2 Department of Chemistry, University of Otago...Otago, Union Place West, 9016 Dunedin, New Zealand 3 Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche, della Terra e dell’Ambiente...tectonic settings. The Livingstone Fault in New Zealand is a terrane-bounding structure that separates...the southern segment of the Alpine Fault in New Zealand (Barth et al., 2013). Additionally, serpentinitedominated
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